CHAPTER IV. 



THE KALADGI SERIES. 



A GEEAT series of rocks, in many respects closely resembling the Kadapali 

 series, forms a well-marked basin, lying mainly between the banks of 

 the Krishna and the Malprabha rivers. 



In geological sequence these rocks occupy the second rank, being 

 the next in age to the gneissic series, on which they rest directly and 

 unconformably. 



The shape of the Kaladgi basin is so irregular that it will be far 



better understood by a glance at the accompany- 

 The Kaladgi basin. . i i i • • t. 



mg map than by any verbal description. Beyond 



the boundaries of the Kaladgi basin proper are numerous outliers resting 



on the older rocks, and inliers exposed by denudation within the area of 



younger rock series. 



The principal of these are on the western side of the basin : the 



Mangaon inlier in the upper valley of the Haran- 

 Outliers and inliers. 



kashi river, the Shengaon and Assungaon inliers 



in the valleys of the Ved Ganga and Dudh Ganga respectively, and the 



Lora inlier in the Konkan at the foot of the Phonda Ghat. 



There are a number of smaller inliers among the Decean trap to 

 the north of the Lora inlier, and several small ones among the laterite 

 plateaux, near the coast, northward of Vingorla, and one small outlier, 

 far removed from the others, rests en the gneiss some miles south- 

 west of the Ram Ghat. On the north side of the basin are the Jam- 

 khandi and Galgali inliers, on the south bank of the Krishna ; a string 

 of tiny inliers among the trap stretching from Mahalingpur to Serul, and 

 a group of large and small ones on the south bank of the Ghatprabha 

 near Yadwad. North of the Krishna, at and near Mamdapur in Bijapur 

 Taluqa, are two small exposures of the Kaladgi rocks, which are partly 



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